Archive for the ‘Citizen journalism’ Category

Alan speaks to OgilvyOne in Barcelona

Sunday, May 15th, 2005 Last Thursday, I gave a speech to 60+ senior members of OgilvyOne in Barcelona. Thank you OgilvyOne for inviting me. Of course, I was talking about our book Communities Dominate Brands and the converging issues that are forcing businesses ...

The web is not the Internet

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 TV News in a Postmodern World - Beyond the World Wide Web. Stuff I liked: People do not demand messages. The internet becomes powerful when it can truly deliver 1). Need to know 2). Need to buy And of course this becomes ever ...

Its politics, big business and big media. But not as we know it

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 Iain Duncan Smith's article in the Guardian on Saturday made for some interesting reading For decades the national conversation in most western countries has been directed by a few talking heads. Newspapers play important roles but all ...

Communities Dominate Brands

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Communities Dominate Brands Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore (about 250 pages, hardcover, Futuretext Ltd, March 2005) Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about ...

Co-creating experiences, co-creating value

Sunday, November 28th, 2004 My dear friend Adriana Cronin-lucas at the Big Blog Company drew my attention to a recent e-newsletter by trendwatching entitled customer made Tendwatching observes the debate that people are having about brands, products services, companies. And, making ...

The New Digital Economics for Newspapers

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 Life is Local say the Johnston Press. And here is the news Newspapers are on their knees, humbled by the new digital economics, declining into irrelevance, lacking investment, increasingly ignored by readers and scrabbling over a smaller advertising ...

Blogging the Observer

Monday, April 5th, 2004 It was an interesting read, in Sundays Observer on blogging. Yet it seemed that the point was missed about the true nature and capability of blogging. The focus seemed about the egotistical nature of blogging, which is not wrong however, ...